In awe of such a thing as I myself.
i. ii, iii; ii. i; iii. i. 177, &c.
He has thus become a professional politician. Politics is to him a game, and men are counters to be used; i. ii. 312-319.Cassius finds satisfaction in discovering that even Brutus's 'honourable metal may be wrought from that it is disposed.' He has the politician's low view of human nature; while Brutus talks of principles Cassius interposes appeals to interest: he says to Antony,
iii. i. 177.
Your voice shall be as strong as any man's
In the disposing of new dignities.
His party spirit is, as usual, unscrupulous; he seeks to work upon his friend's unsuspecting nobility by concocted letters thrown in at his windows; i. ii. 319. in the Quarrel Scene loses patience at Brutus's scruples.
iv. iii. 7, 29, &c.
I'll not endure it: you forget yourself,
To hedge me in; I am a soldier, I,